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Mysterious Infant Star Behaves Like a Strobe Light

Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light.

8 Feb 2013

Scientists Find Ways to Manipulate Surface States of Topological Insulators

In bulk, topological insulators (TIs) are good insulators, but on their surface they act as metals, with a twist: the spin and direction of electrons moving across the surface of a TI are locked together. TIs offer unique opportunities to control electric currents and magnetism, and new research by a team of scientists from China and the U.S., working with Berkeley Lab’s Alexei Fedorov at beamline 12.0 at the Advanced Light Source, points to ways to manipulate their surface states.

7 Feb 2013

Dark and Glowing Red Clouds Weave Amongst Bright Stars in the Seagull Nebula

Running along the border between the constellations of Canis Major (The Great Dog) and Monoceros (The Unicorn) in the southern sky, the Seagull Nebula is a huge cloud mostly made of hydrogen gas. It's an example of what astronomers refer to as an HII region. Hot new stars form within these clouds and their intense ultraviolet radiation causes the surrounding gas to glow brightly.

7 Feb 2013

Renowned Astro-Photographer Assembles Photo Illustration of Magnificent Spiral Galaxy

Working with astronomical image processors at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., renowned astro-photographer Robert Gendler has taken science data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive and combined it with his own ground-based observations to assemble a photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106.

7 Feb 2013

Some Red Dwarf Stars Found to Have Habitable, Earth-Sized Planets

Using publicly available data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs are the most common stars in our galaxy, the closest Earth-like planet could be just 13 light-years away.

7 Feb 2013

Supernova Hunt Sheds New Light on Death Sequence of Massive Stars

An automated supernova hunt is shedding new light on the death sequence of massive stars—specifically, the kind that self-destruct in Type IIn supernova explosions.

7 Feb 2013

Proposal to Study Random Numbers from Quantum Processes Receives Singapore MOE Award

For a proposal to study randomness in all its quantum forms, a team of 13 CQT Principal Investigators has won a five-year grant from Singapore's Ministry of Education (MOE) worth approximately S$10 million. The project will explore where quantum randomness will be useful, how to characterize it and what technologies to use to produce it.

7 Feb 2013

Excelitas Expands Single Photon Counting Module Line of Products

Excelitas Technologies, a global provider of innovative customized optoelectronic solutions, announced today new offerings within its industry-leading single photon counting module (SPCM) suite of products designed to provide customers with the highest level of photon detection efficiency.

7 Feb 2013

Quantum Fluctuations May be Responsible for the Probability of All Actions

Ever since Austrian scientist Erwin Schrodinger put his unfortunate cat in a box, his fellow physicists have been using something called quantum theory to explain and understand the nature of waves and particles.

6 Feb 2013

Researcher to Advance Study of Quantum Dots Core-Shell Interface with NSF Award

Colin Heyes, an assistant professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas, has received a $650,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation. The award was given to further his investigation of the interfaces between the core and shell of colloidal quantum dots.

6 Feb 2013

Active Supermassive Black Hole Found in Heart of Spiral Galaxy

Despite its appearance, which looks much like countless other galaxies, Messier 106 hides a number of secrets. Thanks to this image, which combines data from Hubble with observations by amateur astronomers Robert Gendler and Jay GaBany, they are revealed as never before.

6 Feb 2013

Researchers Study Quantum Transport in Topological Insulator Hybrid Structures

Topological insulators are novel materials that are insulating in the bulk but have surface states that are conducting. These surface states are topologically protected and possess several intriguing properties with the promise of potential applications.

6 Feb 2013

Retention Theory May Explain Dancing Ribbon of Energetic Neutral Atoms in Space

The vast edges of our solar system – the boundary at the edge of our heliosphere where material streaming out from the sun interacts with the galactic material – is essentially invisible. It emits no light and no conventional telescope can see it. However, particles from inside the solar system bounce off this boundary and neutral atoms from that collision stream inward. Those particles can be observed by instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX).

6 Feb 2013

JQI Scientists Use Quantum Dots, Microfluidics and Plasmonics to Study Optical Nanostructures

Modern telecommunications happens because of fast electrons and fast photons. Can it get better? Can Moore's law---the doubling of computing power ever 18 months or so---be sustained? Can the compactness (nm-scale components) of electronics be combined with the speed of photonics? Well, one such hybrid approach is being explored at the Joint Quantum Institute (*), where scientists bring together three marvelous physics research fields: microfluidics, quantum dots, and plasmonics to probe and study optical nanostructures with spatial accuracy as fine as 12 nm.

6 Feb 2013

AAS Awards Bruno Rossi Prize for Research on Gamma-Ray Pulsars

To say that Alice Harding, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has a passion for pulsars is a bit of an understatement. On Jan. 24, she was named a winner of the 2013 Bruno Rossi prize together with Roger Romani of Stanford University. The award recognizes their work in establishing a theoretical framework for understanding how pulsars emit gamma rays, the most powerful form of light.

5 Feb 2013

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Mysterious Infant Star Behaves Like a Strobe Light

Scientists Find Ways to Manipulate Surface States of Topological Insulators

Dark and Glowing Red Clouds Weave Amongst Bright Stars in the Seagull Nebula

Renowned Astro-Photographer Assembles Photo Illustration of Magnificent Spiral Galaxy

Some Red Dwarf Stars Found to Have Habitable, Earth-Sized Planets

Supernova Hunt Sheds New Light on Death Sequence of Massive Stars

Proposal to Study Random Numbers from Quantum Processes Receives Singapore MOE Award

Excelitas Expands Single Photon Counting Module Line of Products

Quantum Fluctuations May be Responsible for the Probability of All Actions

Researcher to Advance Study of Quantum Dots Core-Shell Interface with NSF Award

Active Supermassive Black Hole Found in Heart of Spiral Galaxy

Researchers Study Quantum Transport in Topological Insulator Hybrid Structures

Retention Theory May Explain Dancing Ribbon of Energetic Neutral Atoms in Space

JQI Scientists Use Quantum Dots, Microfluidics and Plasmonics to Study Optical Nanostructures

AAS Awards Bruno Rossi Prize for Research on Gamma-Ray Pulsars

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